S6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,235 of the district's 1,769 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.40293, -1.51332, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in S6

Companies House lists 2,229 companies with a registered office in S6; 348 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for S6

• Sheffield
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Dungworth
• Holdworth
• Low Bradfield
• Low Holdworth
• Hollow Meadows
• Stacey Bank
• Load Brook
• Hill Top
• Storrs
• Ughill
• High Bradfield

Roads filed under S6

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Acorn Drive
• Acorn Hill
• Acorn Way
• Addy Close
• Addy Drive
• Addy Street
• Adelphi Street
• Agden Close
• Agden Side Road
• Airedale Road
• Albanus Croft
• Albanus Ridge
• Albert Terrace Road
• Albion Street
• Aldene Avenue
• Aldene Glade
• Aldene Road
• Alney Place
• Alpine Road
• Annet Lane
• Anvil Close
• Archer Gate
• Arnold Street
• Ashberry Gardens
• Ashberry Road
• Ash Street
• Ashurst Close
• Ashurst Drive
• Ashurst Place
• Ashurst Road
• Auckland Avenue
• Austin Close
• Austin Court
• Avondale Road
• Aysgarth Road
• Back Lane
• Balaclava Road
• Ball Road
• Balmain Drive
• Balmain Road
• Bamforth Street
• Bankfield Lane
• Bankfield Road
• Bank House Road
• Barker's Place
• Barlow Drive
• Barlow Road
• Barrack Lane
• Bartlett Close
• Bastock Road
• Baxter Close
• Baxter Drive
• Baxter Mews
• Baxter Road
• Bedford Street
• Beechwood Road
• Beeley Wood Lane
• Beeley Wood Road
• Beeton Green
• Bellhagg Road

Check an address in S6

Check an address in S6

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=S6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about S6

What does an S6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the S6 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Sheffield. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,235 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest S6

• S102.9 km
• S33.1 km
• S13.8 km
• S54.0 km
• S44.2 km
• S114.7 km
• S985.5 km
• S75.5 km
• S25.7 km
• S965.9 km
• S356.3 km
• S96.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids